Category Archives: General

OS interview questions

What is MUTEX ?
What isthe difference between a ‘thread’ and a ‘process’?
What is INODE?
Explain the working of Virtual Memory.
How does Windows NT supports Multitasking?

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Typical interview questions

This is a "dirty dozen" set of typical interview questions that Dan Johnston from PPR Career sent us. Refer to the set of answers for details.

Tell me about yourself (refer to same answer #1 below)
What are your greatest strengths/weaknesses? (refer to sample answers #11 & 12)

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Microsoft college recruitment questions

Reader Vinay Solanki faced these questions from Microsoft recruiter, who apparently was hiring straight out of college.

How did you first get interested in Computer Science?
What do you like to do best related to computers now (programming, administration, testing, manage projects, etc)? What is it about that area that you specifically enjoy?
What is your strongest [...]

Also posted in C++, Windows | 9 Comments

55 most frequently asked interview questions

Dan Johnston from PPR Career shared the following list of frequently asked questions on a job interview, as well as advice on what to be prepared for.

Tell me about yourself. Use “Picture Frame Approach”

Answer in about two minutes. Avoid details, don’t ramble. Touch on these four areas:

How many years, doing what function
Education – credentials
Major responsibility [...]

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July contest winner

Ashfaq Ahmad won the July contest, a random drawing of all the qualified questions. Ashfaq, please e-mail techinterviews@gmail.com with your address, and we’ll send you the book list.

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Solaris interview questions

What does the pkgadd command do?
How do you create a solaris package?
How do you view shared memory statistics?
How do you get system diagnostics information?

Also posted in Unix/Linux | 26 Comments

SAP/ABAP interview questions

Type of table?
Events of module pool?
Events of interactive report?

Also posted in Database, Java, SAP ABAP | 10 Comments

Cake puzzle

Submitted by the reader:
You have a sheet cake. There is a rectangular piece missing from the inside of the sheet cake. The location of the missing piece is arbitrary. I was told I could assume I had the means to make the cuts. How do you divide the sheet cake into 2 even proportions with [...]

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System integration questions

This set arrived from a system integration shop.

What is EAI? What are the tools are used? - EAI is Enterprise Application Integration. Tools used are: WebSphere ICS, WebSphere MQ series, WebSphere Application Server, Tibco, Seebeyond, Vitria etc.
What is Integration? - Integration is nothing but integrating different applications softwares like SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Seibel etc. which [...]

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XML interview questions

What is the difference between SAX parser and DOM parser?
What is the difference between Schema and DTD?
How do you parse/validate the XML document?
What is XML Namespace?

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Simple SAP ABAP questions

What is the diffrence between watchpoint and breakpoint?
How many watchpoints and breakpoints can be used in each program?
Types of watchpoints and breakpoints?

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ABAP interview questions and answers

Thanks to the reader who sent in this question set:

What is an ABAP data dictionary?- ABAP 4 data dictionary describes the logical structures of the objects used in application development and shows how they are mapped to the underlying relational database in tables/views.
What are domains and data element?- Domains:Domain is the central object for describing [...]

Also posted in Java, SAP ABAP | 58 Comments